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Are all mint marks located the same on same coins?

Can the placement of a mint mark vary if struck at the same mint w/same metal composition and same date?! I tried to find the answer in past questions and though many threads are similar, nothing answered the issue of all other markings being identical aside from location of mint mark. Thanks and I apologize if I did indeed miss a previous answer.

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good question, actually.

    I think there are a few (one on a nickel from the 1970s) where the placement of the MM on the individual die was so ridiculous that some people pay a premium for them. Mostly, though, extreme variations are just curiosities.

    Starting somewhere in the 1980s, the MMs were no longer punched into individual dies, but rather were added at an earlier stage in he die making process, so that all dies for that coin/year/mint will have the same placement.

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